Can children with autistic spectrum disorders perceive affect in music? An experimental investigation.

نویسندگان

  • P Heaton
  • B Hermelin
  • L Pring
چکیده

BACKGROUND Children with autistic spectrum disorders typically show impairments in processing affective information within social and interpersonal domains. It has yet to be established whether such difficulties persist in the area of music; a domain which is characteristically rich in emotional content. METHODS Fourteen children with autism and Asperger syndrome and their age and intelligence matched controls were tested for their ability to identify the affective connotations of melodies in the major or minor musical mode. They were required to match musical fragments with schematic representations of happy and sad faces. RESULTS The groups did not differ in their ability to ascribe the musical examples to the two affective categories. CONCLUSIONS In contrast to their performance within social and interpersonal domains, children with autistic disorders showed no deficits in processing affect in musical stimuli.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Psychological medicine

دوره 29 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999